If everything, including justice and freedom are for sale to those very few who own all the money, then money is irrelevant to that huge part of humanity which has little or no money by comparison.

We had better recognise that money is the God of the very rich, and by worshiping their God (money) we doom ourselves and all future generations. The very rich cannot give up their God and the rest of us will never be admitted to the inner sanctum.

I don’t advocate Holy War. Let them keep their money. We need to build our own.

Yep. And the progressives have shot themselves in the foot with the income tax, the capital gains tax and other means that were designed to get them a share of the loot. Instead those things have made it impossible to escape the looting by forcing all of US, one way or another, to use FRNs.

And so I once more propose separate government and private money supplies in accord with Matthew 22:16-22. It is morally impossible for only a single money supply to serve both sectors since one is based on force and the other on voluntary cooperation.

But if we don’t then the danger is that gold-bugs will force us into using gold and silver as money which is silly, environmentally destructive, wasteful, fascist and hardly likely to be optimal for economic growth anyway.

Paul Repstock said: “If everything, including justice and freedom are for sale…”

Well the UK and US aren’t quite as bad as Mexico yet, but they’re sure getting there.

In Mexico City, thanks to the wonderful consultation that the city government paid Rudolf Guiliani over $1 million for back in 2003, the government offers a reward to the police for each suspect they apprehend.

So let’s say somebody hits you over the head and steals your wallet. The policeman who catches the guy gets a $400 approx reward. However, if the perp is willing to pay the policeman $1,000, he lets him go. But if you are willing to pay $1000 to the policeman (or the prosecutor), plus the $500 he gets thanks to Guiliani, then the police detain him again. But if the perp is willing to up his offer, let’s say to $2,000, then if you want him brought to justice you have to increase your offer. So the police (and the prosecutors) get the victim and the perp into these bidding wars to see who will pay the most.

Of course if a policeman comes up short of cash at the end of the month, he can just haul in some innocent person, or someone who stole a package of chewing gum, to u his reward´money.

What you end up with is prisons full of innocents or petty offenders who lacked the money to buy off the criminal justice system (police, prosecutors and judges all get in on the action), and the real criminals walk the streets with impunity.

People in the UK and US don’t have any idea how bad it can get. But something tells me they’re fixin’ to find out.

Banker? BANKER? This solid citizen doesn’t want to be identified as a banker? That has to be a misprint. Clearly, he is objecting to being identified as a bankster, that is, a crooked banker, which of course, he is. But here at NC, we believe folks should obey the law. Thus, I recommend that all law abiding citizens of Great Britain simply refer to Mr. Goodwin as “a prominent asshole”, “skallywag”, or simply “Shyster.”

“The banker, who is paid a substantial six figure sum, began the illicit affair before the credit crunch erupted and plunged the country into recession,”

This story is full of holes (no pun intended).
To wit:
How could a six figure sum be substantial to a banker?
Why would this banker’s sex life be news if there were no drugs or prostitutes involved?
If there were drugs and prostitutes involved, why is that being covered up with this planted story about a romantic affair?
Who were the prostitutes and can we see them topless in the English Press?
What drugs were involved and how much of them?
If the drugs and prostitutes weren’t charged to the bank’s expense accounts, why not?
How much of that 1 trillion bailout was spent on drugs and prostitutes?
Why is this fellow’s encounter deemed newsworthy when someone like me would get no PR at all even if I went out on the town and picked up Lindsey Lohan and took her home to see my etchings and she stayed happily all night long?